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‘Just brutal’: NYC Ed Department reveals 50 - from administrators and teachers to facilities and food workers - have died from COVID-19

The COVID-19 deaths included 22 paraprofessionals, 21 teachers, two administrators, two central office staffers, a facilities employee, a guidance counselor and a school food worker.




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CUNY faces calls to freeze price hikes, reimburse tuition amid pandemic

CUNY students, whose median family income is $40,000 a year, say it’s the worst possible time to face additional expenses.




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Thousands of NYC school bus workers furloughed after city declines to renew bus company contracts because of coronavirus shutdown

Union officials say school bus workers will be hit hard by the cuts.




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NYC Education Dept. reinstates Zoom after security and privacy upgrades

Schools chancellor Richard Carranza put the kibosh on the app in early April, several weeks into the city’s seismic shift to remote learning, citing concerns about Zoom’s privacy and security features.




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7 SEO-Boosting Tactics You Might Be Neglecting

When thinking about SEO, it’s tempting to concentrate on what’s occurring behind-the-scenes and neglect better ways to increase exposure. Whether you’re directly dealing with SEO or looking to compliment your existing SEO presence with tactics for additional exposure, it’s important to continually focus on developing and growing your digital marketing strategy.
 
On-Page vs. Off-Page SEO Factors
When you look at SEO, it’s important to understand the difference between on-page and off-page factors. While these two groups work together ...

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How to Cut Your Bounce Rate in Half with Interactive Content

You can grow your blog in two ways:

1. Get more traffic.
2. Do more with the traffic you have.
In my opinion, you should do both even though most people focus on the first option.
Those bloggers don’t realize they’re losing a large chunk of their traffic before it even has a chance to convert.
One of the best ways to see how well you’re using your traffic is to look at your bounce rate.
The average bounce ...

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10 Things Your Competitors Can Teach You About SEO

Remember the age old adage, keep your friends close but, your enemies closer? In the world of digital marketing and search engine optimization, there is no one closer to you in search rankings than your competitors. So why do business’ often overlook this step and jump right to building strategy? There is a wealth of information and competitive advantage that can be gained from finding and analyzing your competitors. When it comes to a thorough search engine optimization ...

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Taylor targets three fights to cement her legacy

Katie Taylor has set her sights on three huge fights that would cement her status as the best ever women's boxer.




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Connacht GAA chief: Time to say goodbye to 2020 games

Connacht GAA president Gerry McGovern believes the risks of a return to playing action this year are too high and has instead urged the Association to focus completely on the 2021 All-Ireland Championships.




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CPA sympathetic to problems facing officialdom

Club Players Association chairman Micheál Briody accepts that counties will have to greatly alter the structure of club competitions if a window for playing does become available later this year.




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When Spillane snubbed NFL & Jackie Stewart in Bahamas

When Pat Spillane competed in the 1979 edition of International Superstars the school teacher from Templenoe was an amateur among pros, but he had the chance to pocket up to €3000 per event if he could win.




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Facebook Feeds Generator Is Experiencing Problems

Some of you might have noticed that our Facebook Feeds generator can right now generate only RSS feeds of your own Facebook pages..

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Facebook Feeds Are Back On

Facebook review team has approved our Facebook Feeds app and now all Facebook feeds are working again. All previously generated Facebook feeds will be automatically resumed..

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Improved Photo And Video Posting To Facebook Pages And Groups.

No doubt, media content is very important  when it comes to updating your blogs and social network pages. We totally understand that and constantly improve images and videos processing, either in content feeds or posting campaigns. Today we are glad to introduce one of the latest updates to our Facebook Poster, which improves posting images and videos to Facebook pages and groups.
Before, when you made a post to your Facebook, only one image (photo) was attached to it. ...

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Man called 911 to report 'a black male running down the street’ before Ahmaud Arbery shooting, audio recordings confirm

Audio recordings of two 911 calls placed moments before Ahmaud Arbery was killed confirm that at least two people were concerned that a black man was running in their Georgia neighborhood.




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Former truck driver arrested in Iowa for three murders dating back nearly 30 years

A fomer-long haul truck driver behind bars for allegedly killing three women in Tennessee and Wyoming in the 1990s is now being investigated for any ties he may have to other cold murder cases, police said.




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California man to plead guilty to conning ‘black-ish’ star

That's plenty sketchy-ish.




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When Do Shelter-in-Place Orders Fight COVID-19 Best? Policy Heterogeneity Across States and Adoption Time -- by Dhaval M. Dave, Andrew I. Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Joseph J. Sabia

Shelter in place orders (SIPOs) require residents to remain home for all but essential activities such as purchasing food or medicine, caring for others, exercise, or traveling for employment deemed essential. Between March 19 and April 20, 2020, 40 states and the District of Columbia adopted SIPOs. This study explores the impact of SIPOs on health, with particular attention to heterogeneity in their impacts. First, using daily state-level social distancing data from SafeGraph and a difference-in-differences approach, we document that adoption of a SIPO was associated with a 5 to 10 percent increase in the rate at which state residents remained in their homes full-time. Then, using daily state-level coronavirus case data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we find that approximately three weeks following the adoption of a SIPO, cumulative COVID-19 cases fell by 44 percent. Event-study analyses confirm common COVID-19 case trends in the week prior to SIPO adoption and show that SIPO-induced case reductions grew larger over time. However, this average effect masks important heterogeneity across states — early adopters and high population density states appear to reap larger benefits from their SIPOs. Finally, we find that statewide SIPOs were associated with a reduction in coronavirus-related deaths, but estimated mortality effects were imprecisely estimated.




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NYC’s death toll reaches 19,540, with 174,709 total coronavirus cases: NYC Health Department

As devastating as the NYC numbers are, they represent a steady decrease from early April, when there were 533 new confirmed deaths on April 7 and 6,155 new cases on April 6.




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Tara Reade calls on Joe Biden to end his presidential bid over her sexual assault accusations

Tara Reade made the remarkable demand during an appearance on ex-Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly’s show, her first on-camera interview about the alleged assault.




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New York extends civil ‘look back’ for child sexual assault victims

NY Gov. Cuomo extended a “lookback window” created as part of the Child Victims Act last year that allows child sex abuse survivors of all ages to file civil suits beyond the normal statute of limitations.




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Sam Cane confirmed as new All Blacks skipper

New Zealand Rugby has confirmed that Sam Cane will take over from Kieran Read as All Blacks skipper.




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RTÉ Sport Classics: Briggs steps back into the unknown

Ireland's historic 2013 Women's Six Nations Grand Slam victory is the latest of our RTÉ Sport Classics which you can watch on RTÉ2 and the RTÉ Player at 9.30pm tonight. Niamh Briggs, who played a key role in that triumph relives the glory day before she watches it back for the first time.




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Five Sarries players breach social distancing rules

Five Saracens players have apologised after they were pictured breaking social distancing rules on Monday.




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Lack of support for women's rugby disappoints Murphy

Jenny Murphy believes Irish women's rugby has not developed enough in the time period since the senior team's historic Grand Slam win in 2013.




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Best XV of professional era: Ulster back row

We're picking the ultimate Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster teams of the professional era, position by position, province by province, and we want your help. Today, it's Ulster's back row.




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Bring "Spooky Action at a Distance" into the Classroom with NOVA Resources

Quantum physics impacts the technology students use every day. Use these resources from NOVA broadcasts, NOVA Digital, and What the Physics!? to introduce quantum concepts to your classroom.




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Quivering bird eggs prep each other for predators before they hatch

Even while still in their eggs, baby birds can hear their parents’ alarm calls. They then pass the message along to unhatched siblings so the entire clutch emerges aware of the dangers ahead.




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In the race against climate change, many animals may not keep up

A sobering analysis suggests that animal species aren’t adapting fast enough to maintain their numbers in the face of rising temperatures.




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Scientists use radiation and bacteria to slash mosquito populations on two Chinese islands

Combining two insect-control techniques, researchers largely prevented reproduction in a mosquito species known to carry Zika, dengue, and yellow fever.




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The weird and wonderful world growing spuds (and other crops) in space

With the right kind of care, plenty of plants actually do just fine in microgravity.




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In a first, astronomers may have detected a black hole swallowing a neutron star

The LIGO and Virgo observatories appear to have picked up gravitational waves from a first-of-its-kind astronomical observation.




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How Kīlauea’s lava birthed an algal bloom visible from space

Lava descending into Hawai‘i’s ocean drove an upward surge of deep sea nutrients, cultivating life at the surface.




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Soot from polluted air can reach the fetal side of the placenta

A new study hints at the ways in which air pollution may directly impact a fetus.




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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in farm animals are rising in low- and middle-income countries

That spells trouble for the entire planet.




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Planet Nine probably isn’t a black hole. But it might be worth checking

A pair of physicists think it’s possible that a tiny black hole left over from the universe’s early days lurks in the outer solar system.




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Scientists retract study linking CRISPR baby mutation to early death

The study, originally published in June, contained an error that its authors caught months later.




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World’s loudest bird flirts by screaming in your face

Researchers aren’t sure how these birds maintain this deafening mating ritual without damaging their hearing.




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Google says it just achieved “quantum supremacy.” Is it true?

If validated, Google’s new technology may bring us closer to a future of ultra-efficient computing.




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Racially-biased medical algorithm prioritizes white patients over black patients

The algorithm was based on the faulty assumption that health care spending is a good proxy for wellbeing. But there seems to be a quick fix.




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Feast your eyes on the first-ever photos of a silver-backed chevrotain in the wild

The images confirm the species, which has been “lost” to science for 29 years, is alive and well in its native Vietnam.




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Communities come face-to-face with the growing power of facial recognition technology

As law enforcement agencies deploy AI-powered facial recognition systems, some communities are pushing back, insisting on having a say in how they’re used.




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NOVA Marathons: Space & The Universe

Six episodes exploring the vast, mysterious, and powerful universe we live in.




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Scientists find warm water beneath Antarctica’s most at-risk glacier

Thwaites Glacier is melting fast. But to understand how climate change is driving its decline, scientists need to send instruments through 2,000 feet of ice into the water below.




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Video: Creating and Racing the GT LTS - 'Full Travel' Ep.2



A look behind the scenes at the creation of the GT LTS from development to racing with the GT Factory Racing team.
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How Has COVID-19 Impacted Bike Retail in North America & Beyond?



With the world in the throes of a global pandemic, bicycle retailers have come up with solutions to continue business and keep riders on their bikes as best they can.
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Throwback Thursday: Champery 2007 - The Greatest Race Run Ever?



2007 was the first time Champery appeared on the World Cup circuit and it was a rude awakening for the riders.
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Mavic Placed into Receivership in France



Courts place Mavic into receivership as they try to work out who actually owns the French wheel brand.
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Video: Oscar Härnström Builds and Shreds a Downhill Track Made from Snow



Oscar built this track while Sweden was still in the grip of winter and planned on more until CoVID-19 hit.
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Check Out: Carbon Wheels, Active Jeans, Origami Fenders, Lights & More



A look at the latest gear to cross our desks.
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